A4 - Why Do Nurses Make Errors? Everybody's Human.

Title: A4 - Why Do Nurses Make Errors? Everybody's Human.

Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • Attendee will: Define Human Factors and their relationship to error occurrence.
  • Attendee will: List the three most likely causes of nursing errors.
  • Attendee will: describe swamping, attentional divot, and inattentional blindness.

    • Submission Description:
    Why do nurses make errors? How do human factors contribute to nursing errors? Learn about swamping, inattentional blindness, attentional divot and other reasons mistakes happen.
    Monday, June 15, 2015: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
    Grand Ballroom 1 (Long Beach Convention Center)
    Moderator:
    Cathy Ivory, PhD, RN-BC
    Presenting Author:
    Cheryl K. Roth, PhD, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB, RNFA
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